My America

art & self

CONNECTING

Develop personal artistic voice through connecting uses of art within a variety of cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts.

Describe the connection between personal artistic creation and one’s relationship to local and global learning communities.

Develop personal artistic voice through connecting uses of art within a variety of cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts.

RESPONDING

Reflect on the context of personal works of art in relation to community, culture, and the world.

CREATING

Explore essential questions, big ideas, and/or themes in personally relevant ways

Concepts

What role do experimentation, practice, and persistence play in developing artistic skills and exploring ideas?
How does artwork cultivate an understanding of art as windows and mirrors of society?

artwork by Gordon Parks

View the artworks above by Gordon Parks. His images tell visual stories and feature symbols of America including American Gothic. Be sure to look over the artist bio.
Brainstorm and sketch ideas about personal experiences that relate to American society. Identify two symbols that represent a personal position.
Take or gather black and white imagery. Procure at least two photos that are symbols to represent a personally relevant perspective of society. Gather or take one self-portrait. Upload images you take to your google drive.
Using the symbols of American society as a subject matter and inspiration, create imagery on adobe express. Consider the colors used for this image as different colors will convey different moods or emotions. Save images to incorporate later.
Determine the placement of the black and white images on top of the background. Consider the balance of the composition.
Your final piece needs to have a minimum of 5 layers.
Write your Artist Statement to be displayed nexted to your artwork.

Gordon Parks.pdf

Artist Statement Flow Chart.pdf

revised Art rubric ola.docx

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